Margaret Thatcher

Richard Cockett’s tracing of how the Austrian capital has shaped western politics, economics and culture is essential reading

The south-coast city is forever linked to a notorious IRA bomb, but there’s no trace of anti-Irish sentiment

The Chilean director whose previous films include Jackie, about Jackie Kennedy, and Spencer, about Princess Diana, turns his attention to the dictator who ruled his country for 17 years

What the UK and Norway did with their oil and gas wealth couldn’t have been more different. Both experiences provide valuable lessons for Ireland

Vacations are rarely straightforward for busy leaders but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t take them

‘Boomer’ or ‘millennial’ labels mean little here. Home ownership, or lack of it, has split the country

Patrick Freyne: On Scared of the Dark, Danny Dyer has locked eight celebs in a pitch-black bunker. He’s basically the angel of death

In this extract from his new book, Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown, Rory Carroll recounts the moment the bomb went off, the devastation it caused and the prime minister’s immediate reaction

Tories face a wipeout in Wales at the next general election, yet the party was successful there under Thatcher and under Boris Johnson

Former chancellor latterly became a prominent sceptic on the issue of climate change

Rory Carroll’s fascinating, exhaustive account reads like a thriller and details the planning, perpetration and consequences of one of the most sensational event of the Troubles

Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington attack all too readily an industry they present as a confidence trick whereby states and other actors outsource their decision-making

The veteran broadcaster has written a memoir. Here he discusses his boarding school misery, wars in Central America and why Boris Johnson is a chancer

Anxiety over the rise of a propertyless class has been an obsession of property owners since the time of John Locke

Organisation to mark anniversary with celebration for staff, suppliers and supporters

‘Feed the Scousers’ chants are imbued with anti-migrant and anti-Irish sentiment

The composer on sea bream, symbols, spies, Salome and his new Cello Concerto

Keir Starmer hails ‘big turning point’ for Labour as Lib Dems also make comeback

Dublin council chief warns against merger of councils under directly elected mayor

The British prime minister is less likely to be brought down by his private behaviour than by his government’s record in office